Nora V. Demleitner

Nora V. Demleitner, 2017-18 Senior Fellow, is Roy L. Steinheimer Jr. Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, where she previously served as dean of the law school. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, the European Law Institute, and the International Academy of Comparative Law. She has authored over sixty articles, published in leading U.S. law journals, is the lead author of Sentencing Law and Policy (Wolters Kluwer), and an editor of the Federal Sentencing Reporter.

She is a graduate of Yale Law School and holds an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown Law Center. Her Baldy Center research will outline the pressing need to dismantle mass imprisonment and provide proposals on how to achieve that goal. It is based on personal, theoretical, and practical accounts of the U.S. criminal justice system, which engulfs everyone and taints all with its inhumanity. The work builds on Demleitner’s comparative work in criminal justice, sentencing, and post-sentence collateral consequences.